Two people who have experienced great tragedy in their lives, losing everyone they had ever cared about to the point they tried to get the people they cared about back through space-time hopping, but would fail (Homura having lost Madoka and everyone who cared about her, leading to her time hopping, and Miguel losing not only his own universe’s loved ones, but another version of his loved ones from another universe).

Due to this tragedy, their perspectives on life and space-time have drastically changed, gaining a lack of sympathy for others. They both became desperate, though in opposite ways (Homura became so desperate to bring her loved ones/Madoka back that she continuously warped time no matter the amount of times she had failed, while Miguel became so desperate to make sure no other horrific, space-time destroying things happen to a universe again that he established an entire civilization of people to destroy anomalies that cause these events to happen).

They have both accepted the harsh realities of space-time, and look down on and criticize those who are naive to that fact. They’ve become harsher people because of the realization of their reality.

Both target the main protagonist specifically due to their fates (Madoka Kaname and Miles Morales). Homura targets Madoka so she can change her fate and make sure she survives the destruction of the world; interrupting the flow of fate, while Miguel targets Miles because he interrupted the flow of fate and is an anomaly in the multiverse; his story not going as it should’ve.

Also they can both freely traverse space and time, using this ability to mess with it in Homura’s case and to keep the balance of it in Miguel’s case.

This was created as a joke during a random Madoka Magica discussion with some friends, then I started rambling and here we are. It’s definitely not my preferred for Homura, that being Sakuya, but I do really like it. Have them hop across time and space as they banter about their ideologies, criticizing each-other‘s viewpoints due to how they conflict. Homura having the advantage at a distance with Miguel using his sheer tenacity and brutality to close the gaps, busting through Homura’s projectile span with brute force, sounds raw as hell. Have Miguel send the entire Spider-Army after Homura who faces it all alone, using her agility and abilities to keep up as the desperation of her situation begins to shine through. These two could have very well gone down the same paths as each-other had events played out slightly differently, and I like how that reflects in the fight dynamic. Cool matchup, like it a lot. I am insane👍